Picking my own freight baby! My journey to & of being on Schneider choice, the Adventure & Numbers!

They do on a very few, but the vast majority don't have them.

They even have trailer tails on a small amount, but again very few. This was a test, not sure what they decided, but I am guessing they decided against them, because I don't see them on the newest trailers so far.

 

Yes, you run the load boards through their authority, and you call the brokers as a representative of farm2fleet basically. farm2fleet handles the load once you come to an agreement, sends whatever information the broker needs, then they email you the load information I believe.

 

Im not an expert on this subject, but you will have a harder time with brokers or getting customers with a new mc number.

 

This is true, but the curve won't last too long. Like anything in business, you have to prove yourself, and I believe that is how it should be. Good communication skills and standing behind your words go a long way.

 

The lanes you run are on the high end of the freight rates. That would transition to you being on the higher end of the average I posted that farm2fleet gave me. if the average was 2.12, there were lanes where the rates stayed higher than that.

I would love to be hitting the rates you mention, but it isn't in the cards for me. Top paying freight our of my house is gonna pay around $1.70 at this point, and that is scrap paper from Bentonville to Valliant. That is a horrible route, but the only freight that hits that number around me. Everything else out of my house hits the $1.20-1.35 range for the most part, with quite a bit of really cheap stuff mixed in. I could also go into Texas for a decent rate, but maintaining anything once you get there is tough, and my load home is going to kill me at .75/mile (which is what most of the freight going from Dallas to Bentonville pays).

 

One was local company driver for a lumber company in U.P. Michigan long, long ago. Second was O/O tried percentage through a broker to see if his company could make more profit (Flatbed based out of Michigan ran all 48). Neither liked it. My uncle sold his entire fleet in 2008 on a hunch that the market would crash. Boy was he right...

 

You guys have the best gig going on right now. It has been written in this thread that you guys acknowledge you complain, but you're not going anywhere, because you all know you are on the side of the fence where the grass is greener!

SNI choice has been a huge success, and we all know this is a copy cat world, it won't be long before the competition joins in. We already see it with Roehl and Interstate. Now who preforms the best is still yet to be decided, but I think SNI will always be on the forefront. When the economy picks up, and more companies offer their version of choice, thus slowing down the new IC recruits, you will see those good days again.

The same thing happened with Prime, they started the whole L/P. Everyone saw how successful it was and now everyone offers this. My wife and I teamed L/P for Prime in 1995. Back then they paid .79/m or %. I chose mileage, because I KNEW I would never know the true rate. Never the less, we didn't do very well, mainly because Prime inc are thieves, and still are to this day. They deducted for everything out of the settlement, I was young and dumb and drank the Kool Aid every driver was bragging about, but I learned my lesson. They had a nice compound then and I can't imagine what the Prime scam machine compound looks like today.

Just my 2 cents on those of you wanting to get your own authority, you can be successful at anything you do IF YOU ARE HUNGRY! You have to want it, do all of the extra things like planning and running numbers and you will be successful. I've been following this thread, you guys are the ones that made it this far, you have the brains to take it as far as you desire.

I'm too lazy, I would rather be an IC over there or buy and lease on to a company. I don't want to do all the leg work with taxes, IFTA, ect... I would rather let my carrier do it for me. I thought about doing SNI choice team, there isn't much info out there about that program, but what I did find tells me their board is worse than yours lol. So we are going to wait it out, and remain company drivers right now.